Despite a brief and unsuccessful attempt by Canadian forces to wrest control of the Twisted release process, it continues. <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">The francophone domination of North America may be inevitable, but it won't happen today. Coming to you from an ominous tower above Cambridge, Massachusetts, Twisted 10.2.0, pre-release 3, is here!<div>
<div><br></div><div>You may - and should! - retrieve it from <<a href="http://twistedmatrix.com/users/glyph/10.2.0pre3/">http://twistedmatrix.com/users/glyph/10.2.0pre3/</a>>.</div><div><br></div><div>To avoid any further delays in getting this release out, we will be keeping to a tight schedule. Unless there are any undiscovered, unfixed regressions from 10.1.0,<b> the final release of Twisted 10.2.0 will be made on November 29, 2010. That is </b><i style="font-weight: bold; ">one week from today.</i></div>
<div><br></div><div><i style="font-weight: bold; "></i>Developers, please install the release now and test with your applications, so you won't be caught off guard when the final release is made.</div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div>
<br></div><div>This new pre-release includes important bugfixes and several exciting new features. Just since the previous prerelease:</div></div><div><ul><li>A new, simpler, <i>substantially</i> more robust CoreFoundation reactor. <a href="http://tm.tl/1833">http://tm.tl/1833</a></li>
<li>A plug-in API for adding new types of endpoint descriptions. <a href="http://tm.tl/4695">http://tm.tl/4695</a></li></ul><div>Other highlights, since the 10.1 release:</div></div><div><ul><li>Improvements to the implementation of Deferred which should both improve performance and fix certain runtime errors with long callback chains. <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><a href="http://tm.tl/411">http://tm.tl/411</a></li>
<li>Deferred.setTimeout is (finally) gone. <a href="http://tm.tl/1702">http://tm.tl/1702</a></li><li>NetstringReceiver is substantially faster. <a href="http://tm.tl/4378">http://tm.tl/4378</a></li></ul><div>Thanks to everyone who worked on the release automation tools, for making this release possible. I can guarantee that if I had to spend a moment longer on it, it wouldn't have gotten done.</div>
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